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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  in this blog post, on Friday morning, that two of our minifigures had ... from outside on Killian Court. You can see the grey expanse of the ... in front of it, and the Harvard Bridge is on the right behind the trees

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  fraction of the most difficult course at my school. A course on American ... I just had the busiest, craziest summer of my life. I remember a ... taste of academic rigor. We learned with assembly-line urgency; papers

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  senior year of high school. I’d tell myself not to worry about college admissions. I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of those people who knew exactly what they want to do with life. I was terrified of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  With my classes ending on Wednesday and finals starting the following ... challenge! On the most exciting note to me, I have spent the past three months immersing myself in as many books as I can cram in the windows of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  Science) sorts of things. It's almost like MIT made these fields overlap on ... constraints on the typology of human language. In particular, our latest project ... in time management.  You've got tons of things to do, as well as even

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  little hazy on the distinction of what makes an engineering leader, so at ... variety of employees working around the globe on their own projects. From ... charge of operations in Africa on the next best course of action, depending

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  , the transition depends greatly on the rigor of your high school ... much harder on yourself, depending on the level of the intro class that ... of activities on campus and realize that while everyone is a nerd at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  ="Hallmarks of Cancer"]7.45[/annotation] pset on epigenetics and cell death in ... planned better and been more on top of things, I would have been able to do ... conference [annotation note="in which the class of 2020 got on a boat and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  shut it, since it seemed out of place. The lights flickered back on, and ... , legs propped up on the seat in front of him, who won the Nobel Prize in ... hadn't been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  , who's on the exhange with me, got these great photos of my friends ... to be A TON OF WORK (ie, I'm working on the weekends) which can be ... note, I felt like there was more of an emphasis on mental health at MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  incident Some friends and I were sitting on the floor of MG’s room. I was ... I knew. I try to base it on wordcount, outside of school; 1k words a ... working on an early draft of one project and a final draft of another at the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  Houston on foot. So, after a lot of deliberation, we decided to cut the trip ... experiences of a lifetime. Last year, MIT didn't give us a spring break because of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  gatherings. Snapshot: Last night, on the inaugural evening of Spring Break, I ... One year ago, in the mush of schoolless boredom known as Spring Break of junior year, I got into MIT. “Got into” is here used idiomatically

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Center See a show at the Museum of Science Ice skate on Frog Pond Go ... , going on a boat ride, seeing the aquarium - all of those seem like perfect ... Bloggers of old have written about the "101 Things To Do Before You

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy ... aerospace. From the start, I knew that MIT had a strong culture of computer science--’Course 6’. So much so, that about a third of my class ended up

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  hours in class analyzing those poems, and written 5000 words on a few ... powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” I’m not going to make ... destructive because of the force behind it. (If it were, by Newton’s Third Law

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  number of students who got their job through networking, on ... collect information on is some kind of networking. The only rule of ... , write down some notes on the back. Or keep a notebook of the people you

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  decided to strike out on my own and dedicate the time to working on some of ... . As it turns out, this semester was.....well....I learned a lot of "extracurricular lessons". We'll put it like that. But an unintended side effect of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  there, so I'm going to move on now and take some pictures of some other ... Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be ... a walk through campus and show you some of the things you may run into

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  Jones has a post-it note on his wall of a joke note passed between two of ... is a simple image of the aftermath of 2.007 on my room. (2.007 is a ... Chair for one of the final times. (Ruth has never held any position on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007